As in any business, formulation of a strategy is essential to achieving desired results. In an ever growing global economy organizations are being pressured to drive revenue growth while reducing costs. In order to capitalize on opportunities, an agile organization must adapt and transform itself to gain a competitive advantage.

Conway Consulting Group provides the people, resources and experience necessary to put a plan into action. We recognize that technology is an enabler, but it is the people and processes that truly enable an organization to meet its desired objectives. Failure to address these factors, can only lead to unrealized gains. Our service offerings in our Strategy Services Practice include:

• Business Process Analysis
• Information Technology Strategic Planning
• Technical Architecture Assessments
• Information System Audits

Business Process Analysis is the identification of processes and events that occur in an organization. Using business process analysis, Conway Consulting Group can help you to:

• Identify discrete processes, events, and dependencies.
• Identify ways to improve processes such as procurement, inventory and demand management.
• Identify ways to eliminate redundant operations and increase efficiency of operations.
• Identify opportunities for costs savings and improvement of revenue generating activities.
• Maximize collaboration and teaming among process owners.

Identify processes that can be improved by technology or outsourced.

Implementing technology solutions requires a sound technology plan for addressing the needs of your organization. Being able to look into the future is wishful at best, but to have the ability to implement a strategy to help you move into the future is sound business advice. Without a solid technology plan, organizations will end up spending vast amounts of resources to try and re-invent the wheel. In addition, it is important to make sure your IT strategy is aligned with your overall business strategy.

Partnering with Conway Consulting Group can help your organization capitalize on our breadth of experience in technology implementation projects and planning. As technology changes, you can count on Conway Consulting Group to be there to help you take advantage of the best solution for your business needs. Our technology plans builds bridges in your organization between business managers and technology specialists.

Our shared goal is to help clients get increased value from existing and planned IT investments. By looking both near-term and long-term, information technology business plans can be assessed for how the application of technology can enhance them.

Our strategy plan will help you to:

• Define a vision and mission for your IT organization.
• Analyze current investment in your IT infrastructure.
• Determine the better use of personnel utilization and skills.
• Document and prioritize goals and initiatives.
• Identify proper vendors that meet your objectives.

Realign core business applications to determine if they are mission critical to your organization or if an outsourcing solution would better fit.

Assessing your technology architecture should be something that is done on a periodic basis. The need for a technology assessment may arise due to a new business challenge, new technology, or an outdated technology solution that is no longer able to meet business needs.

Conway Consulting Group’s technology assessment allows your organization to gain insight into the technologies deployed along with the strengths and weakness of each technology. Our technical architecture assessment is the tool needed to help you make the right decisions regarding your technology investment. Our approach can be tailored to meet your specific needs in a rapid evaluation process. The assessment includes:

• Review of architecture and requirements.
• Prioritized list of assessment criteria including strengths and weaknesses.
• As-is and To-Be architecture.
• Documentation of scalability and performance issues.
• A high-level road map of recommendations and impact to take you from the current to the proposed IT architecture.
• Review of resource skills and technical capabilities.

Future considerations.

System Development Review

A system development review involves an evaluation of the development process as well as the product proposed by the project. Consideration is also given to the general controls over a new application, particularly if a new operating environment or technical platform will be used.

General Controls Review

A general controls review is a review of the controls that govern the development, operation, maintenance, and security of application systems in a particular environment. This type of audit might involve reviewing a data center, an operating system, a security software tool, or processes and procedures (such as the procedure for controlling production program changes), etc.

Application Controls Review

The application controls review is a review of controls for a specific application system. This would involve an examination of the controls over the input, processing, and output of system data. Data communications issues, program and data security, system change control, and data quality issues are also considered.